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Dreams in overtime: Newsweek on labor laws for salaried workers

Retail jobs are famously low-paying, with erratic schedules and sometimes shift changes without prior notice. Little wonder, then, that an hourly-paid retail worker would aspire to be promoted—to a salaried low-level management position with its promise of an ascent up the corporate ladder. But it doesn’t always work out so nicely, as writer Virginia Sole-Smith explains in this November 2015 Newsweek report.

Read it here: Sole-Smith, “It’s Walgreens vs. the American Dream in the battle for overtime”

 

My neighbor’s kitchen: Robin Sloan on buying prepared meals

Every day we “gotta eat,” right? Smartphones and apps have paved the way for a variety of new businesses designed to feed customers’ bellies and entrepreneurs’ bank accounts. Writer Robin Sloan discusses two such businesses and the deeper implications of their operating models in this November 2015 article in the Atlantic.

Read it here: Sloan, “Why I quit ordering from Uber-for-food startups”